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17 mars 2013

ASEAN, China must bridge HE and workforce skills gap

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By Katherine Forestier. Countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China face serious disconnects between the knowledge and skills that their higher education systems provide graduates, and the skills needed for the countries’ future development. Education reforms and more international knowledge exchange and collaboration will be needed to bridge this gap and should be the first task for the ASEAN as it moves towards economic integration, according to speakers at the British Council’s Going Global 2013 conference held in Dubai from 4-6 March.
The ASEAN – comprising Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam – will become an ‘economic community’ and regional common market by 2015, with important implications for its workforce and skills development. Read more...

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17 mars 2013

Student loans to require residence permit

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Six applicants for student loans and grants have taken Luxembourg to the European Court of Justice after being turned down by the country’s student loan scheme, CEDIES, on the grounds that they are children of frontier workers. CEDIES claimed that eligibility requires residence in Luxembourg. A court ruling is expected later this year.
In his opinion to the Court on 7 February, Advocate General of Luxembourg Paolo Mengazzi stated that “financial aid for higher education is granted to citizens of Luxembourg and other EU citizens on the conditions that they are residents in Luxembourg”. Read more...

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17 mars 2013

EUA project calls for transparency in PhD programmes

By Carmen Paun. Universities should be more transparent about what they offer through PhD programmes, to better allow students to compare doctoral studies across Europe, Thomas Jørgensen, author of the recently concluded Accountable Research Environments for Doctoral Education (ARDE) project told University World News in Brussels. If doctoral candidates understand what is available regarding career development resources, their research environment, funding and mobility options, it should be easier to choose between PhD programmes across Europe, said Jørgensen, who leads the European University Association (EUA) Council for Doctoral Education. Read more...

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17 mars 2013

Chávez leaves a legacy of poorly funded universities

By Andrew Rosati. As Nicólas Maduro takes the reins as Venezuelan interim president following the death of his strongman predecessor Hugo Chávez, educators and university administrators are hoping for a chance to repair tattered relations with their government.
“It could be an opportunity; we're waiting for them to listen to us,” said Rafael Escalona, academic vice-rector at Caracas’ Simón Bolívar University, or USB.
Educators have long lambasted the government for setting university budgets that never grow, crippling these institutions’ ability to improve infrastructure, conduct research and offer competitive wages. Read more...

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17 mars 2013

‘No risk from reforms’ – But universities beg to differ

By David Jobbins. The 2012 reforms of higher education in England – the switch to higher tuition fees and lower direct state funding – pose no immediate risk to the overall financial health of the country’s universities, says an official report published last week.
But the report from the Higher Education Funding Council for England, or HEFCE, says the changes in funding, coupled with recruitment shortfalls in 2012-13, have led to a wide variation in the financial performance and health of different institutions. Read more...

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17 mars 2013

A higher education avalanche is coming, says new report

By Karen MacGregor. Higher education requires “deep, radical and urgent transformation”, says a just-published report from the UK’s Institute for Public Policy Research. A new phase of competitive intensity is emerging, technology is changing and the traditional university is under pressure from, among others, private providers and MOOCs.
In the report, An Avalanche is Coming: Higher education and the revolution ahead, authors* Sir Michael Barber, Katelyn Donnelly and Saad Rizvi write that last century’s models of higher education are broken. Read more...

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16 mars 2013

edX Makes Key Code Open Source

edX, the nonprofit massive open online course provider started by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, made a part of its source code available to the open source programming community on Thursday. Until more of its code is made public, developers won't be able to clone edX, but President Anant Agarwal said this week's release will let everyone get a peek at its architecture. He said the entire software platform will be made available in the "not-too-distant future." After that happens, colleges across the world could adapt edX's work and use it to host courses themselves. Read more...

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16 mars 2013

Massive On-Line Open Course (MOOC)-Based Higher Education Is A Class-Warfare Scam

Neuro Polar Bear has a post up today mildly criticizing Tom “Suck This” Friedman’s pollyanna column about how MOOC-based higher education is going to “revolutionize” the higher education system.
Here is everything you need to know about MOOC-based education:
The goal of the MOOC (should be “mook”, cause it is designed by the plutocrats for the mooks) frenzy is twofold. First, it is to commoditize higher education, and allow big for-profit corporations to sink their blood funnels into the massive tuition/fees artery. Second, it is to provide cheaper, more uniform higher education to the proles, preparing them for life as corporate drones. Read more...

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16 mars 2013

Licence Pro, VAE, puis Master 2

Blog Educpros de Pierre Dubois. Directeur de la licence professionnelle Management des organisations de l’économie sociale (LP MOES) à Marne-la-Vallée, j’ai toujours conseillé aux diplômés (150 pour les promotions 2004 à 2008) de ne pas poursuivre immédiatement des études, d’entrer sur le marché du travail pour progresser en compétences et accumuler des premières expériences professionnelles. Je leur expliquais la Validation des Acquis de l’Expérience (VAE instaurée en 2002) et son grand intérêt: celui de pouvoir un jour, pour les besoins de la carrière professionnelle, accéder directement à un Master 2 sans passer par un M1. Suite de l'article...

Blog Educpros Pierre Dubois. Director of professional license management organizations in the social economy (LP MOES) in Marne-la-Vallée, I have always advised graduates not to pursue studies immediately, to enter the labor market to advance skills and accumulate work experience first. More...

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16 mars 2013

Mesurer la qualité de l’emploi

Par Paul Santelmann, Responsable de la Prospective à l’AFPA. Le n° 454 de la revue « Economie & statistique » de l’INSEE nous propose une comparaison européenne des critères de mesure de la qualité de l’emploi. Les auteurs, Mathilde Guergoat-Larivière et Olivier Marchand,plaident pour une approche multidimensionnelle de cette notion difficile à cerner si l’on s’en tient à des représentations unilatérales ou parcellaires. Or l’étude sous-tend une conception où le travail n’a de valeur qu’associé à un échafaudage de compensations. Ainsi la qualité de l’emploi serait d’abord mesurable à travers les droits associés au détriment des contenus d’activité et de l’intérêt porté par le salarié à son travail. L’autre limite de l’étude tient aux conséquences quant à l’usage de tels critères dans l’évaluation des politiques de l’emploi et de formation. Or celles-ci ont un effet non négligeable dans la façon dont se recomposent les logiques de recrutement et de gestion des ressources humaines des entreprises. L’accord sur la flexicurité de l’emploi n’échappera d’ailleurs pas à ce questionnement. Voir: http://www.insee.fr/. Suite de l'article...

De réir Paul Santelmann, Ceann Foresight ag an AFPA. 454 an iris "Eacnamaíocht & Staitisticí Molann» INSEE comparáid Eorpach critéir maidir le tomhas ar cháilíocht na fostaíochta. Na húdair, Mathilde Guergoat-Larivière agus Olivier Marchand, argóint ar son cur chuige iltoiseach chun an coincheap seo elusive má bata againn chun léirithe aontaobhacha nó fánach. Ach an dearadh staidéir bunúsacha áit a bhfuil an obair den luach a chúiteamh comhpháirtíochta scafall. Níos mó...

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